VS Merlot (VSM) is a system-level software research and development company that specializes in breakthrough software products and educational/training materials for learning and the application of Temporal Engineering™ for software and AI development.

Temporal Engineering, as used by VS Merlot, is the temporal ordering, storing, and managing of system events based on their anticipated occurrence.. This is a "logic before data" approach that greatly reduces the complexity of software.

VS Merlot is committed to furthering the field of Temporal Engineering through our products, training and educational resources. VS Merlot is headquartered on the campus of Louisiana Tech University and are working with staff, faculty and students in the development and support of our mission.

Our primary product, COSA Studio®, is scheduled for Beta Release in Q1 2025. COSA Studio® is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It's created for software developers who would directly benefit from an AI-Driven, complexity-reduction, developer tool. COSA Studio® increases application speed and performance while reducing development and debugging time. COSA Studio® provides a Temporal Engineering platform for the development of advanced artificial intelligence solutions not possible with current technologies.

To date, VS Merlot has demonstrated a software decision point reduction of 5x. This means that applications developed with COSA Studio®, run faster (our algorithm implementation benchmarked at over 100x faster than the industry standard) and have a significant increase in performance (our COSA Studio® AI – Vector Intelligence™ was benchmarked at over 100x vs a Neural Network).
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